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Arnold, Matthew, D.C.L.
(b. Laleham, 1822; d. 1888). “Cromwell” (Newdigate Prize, 1843); “The Strayed Reveller” (1848); “Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems” (1852); “Poems” (1854); “Merope” (1858); “Lectures on Translating Homer” (1861–62); “A French Eton, or Education and the State” (1864); “Essays on Criticism” (1865); “The Study of Celtic Literature” (1867); “Schools and Universities on the Continent” (1868); “New Poems” (1868); “Culture and Anarchy” (1869); “St. Paul and Protestantism” (1870); “Friendship’s Garland” (1871); “A Bible Reading for Schools” (1872); “Literature and Dogma” (1873); “Higher Schools of Germany” (1874); “God and the Bible” (1875); “Last Essays on Church and State” (1877); “Mixed Essays” (1879); “Irish Essays” (1882); and “Discourses in America” (1886). An edition of his “Poems” was published in 1877. For Criticism, see “Essays,” by W. C. Roscoe; “My Study Windows,” by J. R. Lowell; A. C. Swinburne’s “Essays and Studies;” Hutton’s “Essays;” the Bishop of Derry in “Dublin Lectures on Literature, Science, and Art;” “The Life and Letters of A. H. Clough,” vol. i.; the Westminster Review, July, 1863; the Quarterly Review, October, 1868, and April, 1869; the Edinburgh Review, April, 1869; the Contemporary Review, vol. xxiv.; “Letters” (1895), etc.
